tasha van zandt

Tasha Van Zandt is a globally focused director that has traveled on assignment to every continent and over 75 countries around the globe. She has worked with clients such as National Geographic, Google, Adobe, Levi's, Airbnb, Under Armour, among others. Tasha is dedicated to capturing stories that foster empathy and using her lens as a tool to build cultural bridges that lead to greater global understanding. Her work has led her on assignments such as documenting Buddhist monks on the Thai-Myanmar border, researching the effects of coral bleaching at the Great Barrier Reef, traversing the Negev by camel while documenting unrecognized bedouin villages, surveying UXOs in Laos, among many others. Throughout the year Tasha works for National Geographic Expeditions as a Photography and Filmmaking instructor in places such as Australia, Iceland and Japan. Currently, she is directing the feature-length documentary, After Antarctica, which follows the story of National Geographic Polar Explorer Will Steger's unprecedented crossing of the coldest continent on earth.